Letter to Joseph Moscrop
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
15 Jan 1931
Materials
Ink, Paper
Place of origin
Carlisle
Collection
Beatrix Potter Gallery, Cumbria
NT 242603.3
Summary
Envelope for a letter from Beatrix Potter to Joseph Moscrop, shepherd to Beatrix Potter at Troutbeck Park Farm from 1926. Dated 15 January 1931. Part of a collection of letters, Beatrix Potter's Lake District Letters to Joseph Moscrop, edited and transcribed by Judy Taylor and published (1988) as 'Beatrix Potter's Farming Friendship, Lake District Letters to Joseph Moscrop 1926-1943'. See also HIL.R.454, an earlier letter to Joseph Moscrop which mentions The Fairy Caravan; HIL.R.252, a letter to Annie Nelson dated 22 December 1934, which also discusses The Fairy Caravan. Small envelope addressed to Mr Joseph Moscrop, Moss Peteral, Greenhead, Carlisle. It has a red postage stamp and is dated Jan 15 31.
Makers and roles
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943), writer Joseph Moscrop (fl.1926-1943), recipient